German-american Celebration

The only celebration in this city on the Fourth was the GerrnanAmerican celebratiofi at Relief Park. The veterans of the Germán wars of 1836 and 1870, with those of our great civil war, consisting of delegates from Detroit, O.vosso, Jackson, Grand Kapids and a number of other cities, were met at the Michigan Central depot and after marehing througb the city proceeded to the park when an e ïjoyable day was spent. The principal evcnt of the occasion was the aldress by Mr. L. J. Loiseiner, of the Hausfreund and Post. In speaking ot the role the GermanAinericans played in the establishment of the Union and its preservation. Mr. Leisemer said that when the colon es made the attempt to shake off the yoke of England the Gormans from all parta of thu land hastened to the tlag of Washing to.i. Muehlenberg lef t his pulpit and with his Germán regiment fought in Virginia; Kalteisn and his Germán regiment fougnt in South Carolina: Ziegl-r and his Germán regiment fought at fort Schuyler; DeKalb died at the head of hi8 regiment at Camden, and VonSteuben was inspector general of the American army. 'At the outbreak of the great civil war," continued thespeaker, '-when the people of the South tried to destroy the Union, the German-Americans, more aumerous than any other foreign element, donned the coat of blue and foughtand bied and died for the preaervation of the Union. "Frcm whence come these GermanAmericans - from what race do they spring, from which land do they hailV "We come from a land which lies in the heart of Europe ; we come írom a land where the arts and sciences were nursed and cradled during the middle ages; we come from a land where religious liberty was born ; we como from a land wheie Luther, the reformer, translated the Word of God and gave it to the world; we come from a land where the art of printing was discovered ; wc come froin a land where the child of nature, Alexander von Humboldt, was borti : we come from the land of minstrelsy and song : we come from the land of the masters- Mo.aru Beethoven, Bach and Haydn: we come from a land dotted with universities: we come from the land of the philosophers- Klopstock, Wieland, Lessing and Kant: we come from the land of statesman- Stein, Greisenau and Bismack: we come from the land of military héroes- A r,ti mus, ('harlemague, FYederick the Great and Von Moltke, and we come from a land whose warriors conquered the mighty empire of the French and whose cannon roared before the gates of Paris, declaring to the old world that in it Germany is the master of nations. 'We are Americans. The energy, the pluck, the loyaity which we German- Americans have inherited from our fathers we have bequeathed to the Union. We helped to establish and preserve this great Union of States, whose civilization is today foremost in the march of nations. We love o"nly one rtag, the stars and stripes, and in defense of its honor we are ready at all times to die if need be. We GermanAmerieans will continue to celébrate the Fourth of Juy as a day of vietory, as a day when liberty was bom."